why everything has to be in Arabic
I was attending an event in an Islamic Center in a typical city of America. The speaker who spoke on Muslims' issues in this country did a good gob, at the end the audience applauded him by clapping in a spontaneus and joyfull manner. Suddenly, a community member stood up and confidently said " Why are you clapping, say Allah UO Akbar. The audience paused for a few moments, the community member reiterated Allah ah Akbar. The audience started saying Allah o Akbar too: as mechanically as a robot would act- but the expressed feelings seemed to lack in qualty ans spontaneity, I think. It puzzled me and made me ask the question: why? Does God understand only Arabic language or what? Did he not cause the Englishlanguage to be created too ? Why it is all right to clap and express naturally the ...